Last Updated on November 22, 2016 by Dave Farquhar
Application whitelisting is an effective security tool, but a pain to implement and administer. Here’s a very simple tool for it, that works on home versions of Windows as well as pro versions. It’s very simple and possible to defeat, but, arguably, it’s about 90% effective, putting it on par with antivirus and giving you coverage that antivirus will miss. It makes a good companion for antivirus and EMET.
Even grade D+ whitelisting is much better than no whitelisting.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.